The woman was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center with serious and potentially life-threatening injuries. Another woman in her 80s was being treated for an unrelated medical issue but was not being hospitalized, EMS said. The incident marks the second reported explosion in the city on Monday and the third in two weeks. An explosion earlier in the day in the 4800 block of Oldfort Hill Drive in East Austin killed a 17-year-old and injured a woman described as in her 40s. Hours after that incident, interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley said that explosion appeared similar and likely related to another explosion in Northeast Austin on March 2. Authorities on Monday also warned residents against taking suspicious packages inside their homes. The incidents are being investigated by police and federal authorities, as a homicide, the chief said. He also said that investigators were not ruling out the possibility of the explosions being a hate crime because the victims in those cases are African-American.

Three in two weeks. Two in one day. This appears to be a campaign of some kind or another. This is somebody—or somebodies—interested in making a point. One hesitates to ascribe a motive, but the choice of targets does raise some dreadful possibilities. There is enough of a similarity between the events—and, apparently, between at least two of the devices—to conclude that the wildness abroad in the land has claimed more victims.

I know it’s not as big a story as the president* and the porn star, or as big a national event as the hurt feelings of New York Times op-ed writers, but somebody should pay attention to this. It could be another Ted Kaczynski, or it could be something even darker. There’s death in the air and murder is too close to the surface.

Also, hey, Greg Abbott? 15 Gs for a reward? You’ve got donors who can come up with that from the cushions of their sofas. Do better, man.

28. If these bombs had been targeted to white suburbanites,

The MisAdministration would label it an act of terrorism and a matter of national security, with all the appropriate action taken at the Federal level.
Since its not that, it's just probably just some left-wing lone wolf mad that Hillary lost so hugley.

If I need the sarcasm thingie here, you're reading the wrong damn website.
FIND these fuckers. Convict them of terrorism. Let the right and their FakeNews FakePresident bitch and scream about the unfairness of it all.
I'm tired of their bullshit. I want Justice restored to this Country. If that's too much to ask, I'll settle for Rule of Law.

29. Austin has a history of segregation

No matter what you may hear about what a lovely, progressive city Austin, Texas is, there's also a long history of de-facto segregation. "East Austin" is the side of town where blacks and Hispanics lived, and the rest of Austin was for whites.

So just about any news about things happening in East Austin will have a subtext of race.

18. Non-white and/or non-Christian. nt.

16. None of these were delivered by USPS, UPS, or Fed EX.

The police chief refused to provide many details about the explosives, citing the ongoing investigation. But he said they were an "average size letter box" and "not particularly large." In all three cases, he said, the packages did not appear to have gone through the U.S. Postal Service or private carriers like UPS but were left on doorsteps without a knock or ringing of doorbells.

Fredie Dixon’s stepson, Anthony Stephan House, 39, died after a package exploded at his house on March 2. Dixon told the Post he is good friends with Norman Mason, the grandfather of the teenager who was killed in a package explosion around 6:45 a.m. Monday in the 4800 block of Oldfort Hill Drive.

23. Trump has let the demons in this country (and the world, really)...

24. This is absolutely, 100% terrorism.

Yet our idiot president won't condemn white supremacist terrorists because "some, I assume, are good people". And the FBI has actually laxed investigations on white supremacists. This is getting really scary.